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Collected in this volume are the 1889--1905 letters of one of the first African-American literary artists to cross the "color line" into the de facto segregated American publishing industry of the turn of the century. Selected for inclusion are those chronicling the rise of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), an attorney and businessman in Cleveland,

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Profiles of and reading lists for 100 of today's most popular nonfiction authors have been gathered together in this affordable, single source reference, which covers representatives from all major nonfiction genrestrue adventure, true crime, travel and environmental narrative, science, history, life stories, and investigative writing.

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This is Andr Brink's story of a life lived in tumultuous times. He describes with searing honesty his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence and storytelling was a means of reconciling the stark contrasts of his world.

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The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos
'A happy, hilarious book' Daily Express

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An intimate portrait of Stephen Spenders extraordinary life written by Matthew Spender, shifting between memoir and biography, with new insights drawn from personal recollections and his fathers copious unpublished archives.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE

The previously uncollected occasional prose of a great English writer full of wit, feeling and illumination.

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Volume 10 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

This volume begins with Orwell's letters home from prep school and the stories, poems and contributions to college publications he wrote at Eton, including the play King Charles II which features in A Clergyman's Daughter as Charles I.

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A biography of John Mortimer revealing various aspects of Mortimer's legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and the early help he offered his barrister father through to the triumphs of Rumpole and the Oz trial.

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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, his first work of prose: a ... memoir of a family's bonds and a meditation on race, addiction, fatherhood, ambition, and American culture"--

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This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical.

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Volume 13 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

On 18 August 1941, Orwell joined the BBC's Overseas Service.

Along with Volumes 14 and 15 of the Complete Works, Volume 13 shows the enormous efforts he made to disseminate culture rather than crude propaganda.

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Allen Ginsberg occupies a significant and enduring position in American literature. Following Ginsberg's death in 1997, Barry Miles has drawn on both his long friendship with the poet and on Ginsberg's journals and correspondence to produce an immensely readable account of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary poets.

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Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer. This memoir paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends: children's parties with the Dickens family, holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons, and, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome.

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A collection of letters between Arthur Conan Doyle (author and creator of Sherlock Holmes) and his mother, covering most of his life, written between 1867 and the year of her death in 1921.

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Biography of one of the greatest of modern playwrights, Arthur Miller (1915-2005).

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A timely re-examination of the life of Australia's best-loved poet and storyteller - the man whose works captured the essence of the Australian spirit.

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Bereft of a civilized social life, her mother plunged into a deep depression and turned completely away from Carolyn. While her older sister found friends and left for boarding school, Carolyn suffered a desperate sense of abandonment and loss and turned to the landscape of the Kalahari itself for solace.

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The novelist, teacher, and "Southern Review" editor offers thoughts on the craft of writing, the writer's life, and what he's learned from the trajectory of his own career.

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Aristocrat, literary celebrity, Rose Queen, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography.

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His revolution would shatter the earth's illusions, shock men and women with new visions, find true Love and Liberty - and take everyone with him.

Ann Wroe's book takes the life of one of England's greatest poets and turns it inside out, bringing us the life of the poet rather than the man.